Chapter discusses the history of the university. Founded by Presbyterian minister Reverend Eben Blachly (1800-1877) for refugee children from Missouri in the late 1850s to 1860s, the school began as "the...

Illustration and article about the history of the Kansas City Welfare Department, established in 1906 as the Board of Public Welfare, the "oldest, and the only one of its kind in this country." Description...

First of a two part story on children's author Cena Christopher Draper from Warrensburg, Missouri. Noted for children's stories that paralleled her own childhood. Her first published book was a novel for...

A group of Waldo residents have formed the Friends of Hale Cook organization to convince the Kansas City Public School District to reopen Hale Cook Elementary School. The group wants their children to...

Article describes the efforts of SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests), a national organization dedicated to exposing child-abusing priests in the Catholic Church. In recent months, the organization...

The Children's Center for the Visually Impaired, at 3101 Main, started in 1952 as the Kansas City Nursery School for the Blind. The Center serves about 55 communities within 90 miles of Kansas City, working...

Group class photograph for Visitation Catholic School, Grade 5, 1955-56. School located at 5134 Baltimore in Kansas City, Missouri. Only identification, 2nd row down from top, fifth student from the left...

File containing photos and a biographical article about Viola Byrd, an 82-year-old former housecleaner and matriarch of a large Kansas City family as mother of 16 children, residing "in a neat bungalow"...

Amid the excitement attending the departure of Queen Marie's party from Memorial Hill, a crowd of children and some older persons rushed to the shaft and started to tear off pieces of the copper leaves...

Interior view of a a kindergarten class at Van Horn School. Room is identified as the assembly hall. Students are not identified. This photo appears in the "Forty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors...